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Dave Powers is a web developer and humor writer. His humor writing has been published on McSweeney's, Points in Case, and Slackjaw via Medium. He is based in Boston, and previously lived in Somerville. He enjoys catching shows, running, and disarming bank robbers.

Watermaxxing is a field-driven look at how industrial water systems actually run across mines, power plants, refineries, and data centers. It includes FLOWSTATE, a parody LinkedIn newsletter told through the eyes of veteran industrial water operator Grady Watts, who’s spent three decades keeping the pumps turning and the rookies from falling into the clarifier. Co-created by an award-winning Hollywood comedy writer and an industrial water pro. There is also the Off-Shift Arcade 🎮. A free collection of a growing library of field-built games for operators killing time between alarms, rounds, and late-night troubleshooting.